The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-05 00:00:00

Tll3 Prince and incess of Wales in Sweden. (Ft wit the Soecial Correspondent.) STOCKHOLM, Sept. 2J. Tao gratification—amounting to enthusiasm—felt by the Court and people of Sweden at what they regard as the very high compliment paid to their country by the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales continues to evince itself in a succession of brilliant fetes ; and but for the respect felt for the incognito which has been deemed expedient to maintain throughout this present tour, these mania festalions of friendly feeling in this part of Northern Europe would bo very outspoken indeed. Apart from ties of original consanguinity, there are num berless bonds of sympathy and of common political interest between Ergland and Sweden, and natua rally at such a moment these considerations are present to everybody's mind. Both are countries enjoying representative institutions and the widest amount of personal freedom consistent with good government and respect for hereditary rights; both possess great natural advantages,leading them to de sire the maintenance of peace and public order,with a view to the development of internal prosperity; both again are Protestant nations, and both in an especial manner are interested in preventing any great nation from acquiring predominance singly in the Baltic. Add to this that it is impossible to be at the Court of Sweden for a single day without being struck with the fact that, as in England, the public weal is made the first consideration,and that royalty exists, not as an item in a great state pageant, but as an active, intelligent trustee of public interests, and it will be perceived what a substantial strength ening of the good relations already existing may be effected through what appear outwardly to be mere personal courtesies. The limited interval during which it will be possible for their Royal Highs nesses to remain in this country has led inevit ably to the crowding together into a very short space of a number of grand entertainments; so much so, in fact, that to attend them all is vir tually to preclude oneself of the time requisite for describing any with that care of which they are eminently deserving. The ball at Drottningholm last evening was a reunion of the most brilliant character. Ulrikshsdal, the chateau where the Royal party dined the even ing previously, is a residence owing its internal glories altogether to the taste and outlay of the present Sovereign ; Drottningholm, on the contrary, is in all respects a fitting home for the Royalty of Sweden, and as the King, from choice, has fixed his residence elsewhere, it is occupied per manently by the Queen Dowager, who gave this splendid entertainment in honour of the members of the English Royal family. The build ing, which is of great extent, and roofed somewhat in the manner with which the Grosvenor Hotel has made the residents of London familiar, stands on the edge of the Maelar Lake, and is approached from Stockholm across a bridge more than half a mile in length, constructed with movable portions, so as to admit of the passage of steamers plying on the lake. Last night this bridge and the road for some dis tance at either end was lighted up in the effective method that prevails in this country—that is to say, with bowls filled with a blazing resinous mixture, supported on pillars erected at regular intervals. The grounds of the castle itself, constituting a park of very large size, had their outlines and the prin cipal walks indicated by an illumination of a simi. lar character, so that as one drove along through the alternate glare and shadow induced by the fitful breeze towards the building, in which every window was radiant with light, it seemed as if some magi cian's castle of fire were being approached through a blazing avenue. Arrived in front of the castle the effect was not less imposing. Steamers, to the number of seven or eight, which had brought down spectators or invited guests to the ball, lay off the landing pier, introducing into the scene 1 he unusual adjuncts of steam and rigging, partly defined by the signal lanterns. To the right, flights innumer able of stone steps gave admission to the first of the series of terraces for which the architecture of Drottningholm is remarkable. These are connected by double staircases of exquisite green marble, wide enough for eight persons to walk abreast, and every terrace gives admission to a new series of apartments right and left. It would be tedious to describe in detail the portions of the Palace, magnificent as these were which were thrown open for the evening. Let any one imagine a series of princely rooms, fur. nished in exquiite taste, and abounding with works of art of incalculable value, and he will have formed an estimate not exaggerated of the interior of Drott niugholtn. Bat the ball-room cannot be dismissed with a mention equally brief, This is not only a salon admirably adapted to its purpose, having a ceiling painted by one of the best Swedish artists, but it is distinguished from all the rest by the series of valuable portraits to which it owes its title of the " Salle des Contemporains du Roi Oscar." With the exception of two half-length pictures, for which places have been found above the doors of entrance to the ball-room, these likenesses are all on the same grand scale as that of her Majesty Queen Victoria by Winterhalter, a copy of which occupies a promi nent place at the upper end of the room. The col lection owed its origin to a desire to commemorate the treaty of 18.54, which is regarded as a landmark in the modern political history of Sweden, and, car ried out with the completeness which it has been, a glance recalls the circumstances of Europe as then existing, and the wonderful changes which have since taken place. Less than eight years have elapsed from the time when several of the pictures were completed, and already eight of those Sove reigns have been removed, either personally or poli tically, from the positions they occupied. " The places that knew them know them no more." Queen Victoria and the Emperor Napoleon it is true main tain the entente cordiale established at the epoch to which the collection bears especial reference, but the likeness placed intermediately with theirs, the mo narch at whose instance these effigies were brought together, o,car of Sweden, has ceased to exist. It was when King Frederick VII. of Denmark per force put off the uniform of which he was so fond that the troubles began which led to the late me lancholy war; the power which Bombs had abused was not long continued to his successor; and though King Otho be still alive, and the troubles eg iinst which he had to contend were of domestic, not of foreign origin, he too must take his place with mo narchs that have passed away. The young King of Portugal looks in his portrait as if in his figure there were oven then indications of incipient weakness ; and the Sovereigns of Russia and Prussia, though cast in a different mould, have since, with the King of Bavaria, succumbed to the lapse of time. Eight out of 20 removed in the short interval since 18.541 it is a high average, and oven in a ball-room it points a moral. Let the consolation be that those who remain have been spared for wise and good purposes; and let us turn from the walls of the apartment to the goodly company it enfolds. A pro cession is on the point of entering the ball-room, The Prince of Wales enters first, leading in the Queen Dowager; then the King, having oo his arm the Princess of Wales; next, Prince Hansa Giucksburg, with the Queen of S weden,and following them Prince Oscar and a grand array of notables, embracing all the personages of distinction at present included in the Court circle at Stockholm. The Queen•Do wager worn a ric'e silk dress of deep mauve colour, trimmed with white lace, and a tiara of cameos and diamonds ; the Queen, a sea-green dress, also having white lace over, and a wreath in which white roses were up held by sp rays o f d iamonds. The dress of the Prin cess of Wales attracted general admiration ; it con sisted of a rich flame -coloured silk, trimmed with the corresponding shade and havinf , falls of w lace added. T he necklace and headdress of diamonds worn by her Roy a l Highness were drawn from the rich store accumulated te.n the occasion of h er mar riage. With t h e exceP the officers belonging to the British squadron, on the of simple evening costume—habits noire guests universally rps peered in cravat blanc—as the invintatisionßs o h y e a r l e H fre i qh u n e e n s tly ins silt upon explaining. Prince of Wales wore, in addition, thegusuasl star upon his left breast, together with the riband of the Order of the Seraphim. Among the ladies present there ware several with exceedingly ha n d some shoulder ornaments. These did not, as in Den mark, imply connexion with any noble or cha- ritable Order. It is customery in Sweden, when any lady has officiated at Court as dame d'honneur, to present her upon her marriage with the traced in brillianta i d the reigning Sovereign. A still higher mark of favour is to give the Royal likeness to be worn, encircled with diamonds. Among the ladies possessing this latter distinction in the ball room at Drottningholm was the Countess Brahe, whose late husband enjoyed the privilege of being first on the muster.roll of the Swedish nobility—an honour with the eldest son will also enjoy on at taining his majority. After the usual dances of ceremony a cotillon, introducing several figures of novelty, was executed. Immediately prior to one of the changes of time and measure one of the Queen Dowager's chamberlains entered within the circle of dancers and presented to each in turn a large satin pincushion, from which every lady or gentle man, if so minded, withdrew a miniature flig, the nationalities presented being Swedish, Danish, and English. No pplitical significance what ever attached to the pavilion, as it was called; it was merely taken out of the cushion and presented on the next favourable opportunity to the lady or gentleman, as the case might be, with whom the presenter wished to dance, as an indication of that desire; immediately after circling the room once, a return was made to their original partners. Invi tations of this nature might be issued ad libitum while the cotillon lasted, and several gentlemen whose dancing appeared to be in request had quite an array of these miniature ensigns before it con. eluded. Tha King was bound to obey the law equally with his subjects, and among the ladies by whom he was singled out as a partner was a member of the Swedish nobility, English by birth, whose father produced a very agreeable work upon most of the points of interest in Sweden. To institute anything like comparisons such as those which Paris was called upon to make is an invidious task, and led, we know, in the earliest mythological times to the gravest consequences. Without provoking similar penalties, and yet to gra tify in some sort the natural desire which leads men, even at a show of exotics, to inquire who has won the first prize, it may be stated that the three faces most generally admired were representatives of three distinct types of beauty—Danish, English, and Swedish. About 12 o'clock their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, having first 'in scribed their names in a book at the request of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, descended with other members of the Royal family, folio wed by the general company, to supper,which was laid out in apartments under the ball-room suite. These were richly deco rated with tapestries and historical paintings that would have repaid inspection, but it was difficult under the circumstances to concentrate attention on their merits. In the supper-room devoted to the accommodation of the Royal party the King pro posed the health of illustrious visitors. The general company were invited to drink the healths of the Prince and Princess of Wales by M. Wilhelm Aminoff, Chamberlain to the Queen Dowager. Confederate Steamer at Falmouth, (From 64 Western Daily Mercury.) The Flamingo, Captain Collier, a Confederate three-funnel steamer, arrived at Falmouth on Sun day, in nine days and a half from land to land, hav ing left Pictou, Nova Scotia, on the 22d of Septem ber, being one of the fastest rums on record. She came home for repairs, and at the time of reaching the harbour had only about two tons of coal left. From a passenger on board we have received same very intereating details of the events that are trans piring on the coast of the southern part of North America. The Elsie, Confederate steamer, was cap tured on the sth alt. by two Yankee men•of-war steamers off Charleston—the steam frigate Quaker City and the Key Stone State. The Elsie had on board about 500 bales of cotton, and was at the time of her capture running the blockade from Wilming• ton, being bound for Nassau. The Elsie was shelled for four hours by these two vessels, and eventually a 681 b. shell burst on board, and the ship was im• mediately in flames. Tne captain, finding it im possible to put the fire out, thought prudence the better part of valour, and therefore surrendered. Fhe Yankees came aiongsid‘?, and, putting a hose into the Elsie from both ships, poured in a flood of water which soon put the fire out. Tney saved the ship, but lost 200 bales of the cotton, which had to he thrown overboard. The captain and crew were taken prisoners, and were all taken to Beaufort, where they were subsequently liberated. When the Yankees came up to the Elsie they thought she had been set on fire by order of the captain, but on finding the file resulted from the bursting of a shell, ail discipline was forgotten, and every man commenced looting on his own account, and conse quently captain and men were bereft of everything that they had. Usually better discipline is kept, and personal property is resp , :cted, but as the ship was on fire the rights of property were held of no account. About 300 men scrambled up the sides of the ship, and joined in the work of "appropriation.' The Federals allow no liquor to be kept on board their ships, either for officers or crew. It was not so with the Elsie, or the other ships engaged in her line of business, and the first thing that some of the men did was to make for the Captain's cabin, where they made the champagne corks fly "like winking" and in a couple of hours many of the Yankees were dead drunk. When the fire on board the Eisio was put out, the water was up to the fore hatches. She was then towed into Beanfort—a fine booty for those who took her, as her value was about £50,000. The captain and officers were sent in her, and the crew to Baltimore. But all ; as before stated, were eventually liberated. From the same source we learn that the blockad ng squadron off Wilmington consists now of about 170 vessels, so that it is a wonder any vessels can escape such a close blockade ; and indeed it is very difficult and dangerous work. There are now about 40 steamers engaged in cunning the blockade, There is plenty of cotton always ready for despatch but none growing, as every man between the ages of 16 and 60 is obliged to serve in the war. Mobile and Charleston having ben secured, the Federals are able to concentrate all their attention upon Wilmington. The Elsie was fired at the night before she ran by six ships, pouring i❑ grape and canister, None of the men were killed or wounded, As the ship passed along all the men fell tht on their stomachs, and had it not been for the shell she would most probably have got through, as she steamed at the rate of 13 knots, and was a difficult target for the Yankees to practise at in the darkness of a very dark night, The Fede rels—or Yankees, as our informant always called them —use 100 pounder Dahlgren guns, which will carry 1001 b. shells. Most of the blockaders carry two of Cacao guns —one fore and one aft-.which work on a pivot. The yellow fever prevails to a dreadful extent at Bermuda, and in some of the southern parts of America. Its ravages have been unparalleled at Nassau, New Orleans, and Havana. The fever broke out in August, and it has prevailed ever since. All the members of the firm to which the Elsie belonged at Bermuda had been carried off, and the chaplain had found it impossible to road the service over the dead—they were so numerous. A ship was found with all the crew dead, and only the captain and a boy alive on board. She had a cargo of gold dust on board. A new crew was put on board and she was sent on to her destination. In some cases it was found itnpossible to get me❑ to servo the ships. Business had as a consequence been almost entirely suspended. The ships now go to Halifax to get a clean bill of health, so as to escape the 30 days' quarantine at Wilmington, to which all ships coming from Bermuda have to submit. The Southern privateer, the Tallahassee, arrived at Wilmington, and was there when the Elsie left. She had run through the blockading squadron to get coals. The Yankees have removed all the lights ap proaching the harbour, and everything that will enable the Confederate to find his way into safe quarters. The consequence is that, besides a pilot every Confederate ship has to carry a signalman who Works the ship by agreed signs, with which he alone of all on board is acquainted. When a ship is going to run in he makes a signal to the shore look outs, who then lay down range lights to guide the vessel in. These only burn for a very short time, or they would be aids to the enemy as well as to the friend. The Tallahassee, when running through the fleet, was fired at from every direction. When Mobile was taken, the six clptains of the blockade-runners who were left, along with five pilots, all went by triiin to Wilmington. On their way across they were all taken prisoners, and will be confined till the close of the war. The pilots are regarded as most important personages, As a rule they are all kept in safe custody till the war ceases, when their knowledge nay be turned to domestic and social uses. There is a very large quantity of cotton at Sa vannah, but no means of getting at it. There has been only one man killed while en gaged in running the blockade. He was a signal officer and Southerner on board the Old Dominion. He was down below drinking a cup of tea in the steward's pantry. While there a shell burst over him, and " took his heal off as clean as a whistle.'' A very large number of the men engaged on both sides are Englishmen, and the captain of the Elsie is a brave young Cornishman, who was highly com plimented by the officer who took him for his gal , lent bravery. The YankLe said he only wished it had been shown in a better cause. When taken be fore the magistrate and examined he was told he might go. "Go where ?'' said the Elsie captain. '' To the devil,if you like," was the reply. Nothing astonished our captain so much as to hear that ; he made off rapidly, hastened to catch the homeward mail, found it had left four hours, soon obtained another ship, and he is now in England, and will shortly be engaged in the same daring enterprise. It is one of a most profitable character, where successful. The officers receive £l,OOO a voyage. One officer has run the blockade 27 times, and he is now in England with a property estimated at £40,000. The stories we heard were most amusing, and exhibited the greatest pluck and daring. They will, when they come to be related, rival the tales of bygone days. When the men captured the Elsie many of them said they should like to bu engaged in the same line, for keeping the blockade was slow work, and there was not much to be got by it. The ships engaged in running the blockade are splendid steamers, which run at the rate of 13 to 15 knots an hour. The Confederates have got a new privateer, named the Edith, but her name will be changed. She was at Wilmington. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BEDFORD RACES—TuEsDAY. The Preparation Stakes of 20 sove, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, 3 ft, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ; the win ner to be sold for 150 sous, if demanded, &c. ; gentlemen riders ; professionals 61b extra, To start at the dis tance and go once round, about a mile and a half, Mr W. E. Jones's Zeloo, 4 yrs, list 41b (Mr W. Bevill) 1 Mr F. Fisher's Triumpher, 3 yrs, lOst 21b (Mr Hobson) 2 Capt. Coventry's Damascus, 6 yrs, list 111 b (Cat. Mr C, Blanton's G o ldyl oc k s , 3 yrs, 10,A Sib (in. 61b Townele ex)y) 3 (. ) 4 Mr W. VT. Baker's Hypo c h on d r i ac , 3 y rs , W lOst Boyce 51b (Mr Wombwell) 5 Betting-2 to 1 each aget Damascus and Zeloo, 100 to 30 agat Hypochondriac, 8 to 1, " bar 3," offered. Zeloo made play, followed closely by Triumpher, which two quickly ran 50 yards in front, Hypochondriac being a length ahead of Damascus, close in whose rear followed Goldylocks. Excepting that these latter three changed places, Goldylocks going on third and Hypochondriac last, there was no alteration in their relative positions until within half a mile from home, when Triumpher dropped away, Goldylocks second, the others having drawn in close proximity to Zeloo and Goldylocks, Upon arriving in the straight Zeloo increased her lead, and Wm. Boyce finding it useless to persevere, let up_Triumpher again, who, how ever, never caught Zeloo, she winning easily by three lengths, which distance separated the second and third. The others passed .the post pulling up. The winner was not claimed. The Two-Year •Old Stakes of 10 soya each, with 50 added, for colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 71b; certain penalties and allowances. About half a mile. Capt. Handley's Viola, Bst 8:b (11. Orimshaw) 1 Mr C, Alexander's Cordelia, Bst 101 b (inc. 31b extra) (Wells) 2 Capt. IV. H. Cooper's Anti-Macassar, 8.. t 131 b (inc. 31b extra) (Rogers) 3 Mr Drewitt's Bunch, Bst 101 b (inc. 31b ex.) (Ribbero) 4 Mr Hartley's Eugenie, Bst 71b (Payne) 5 Mr 'Muudy's Flight filly, Bst 7lb (Fordhain) 0 Betting-5 to 4 agst Anti-Macassar, 9to 4 agst Viola, G to 1 agst Cordelia, S to 1 agst Eugenie. After two failures an indiff rent stArt- was effected, the Flight filly being completely out of the race the moment the flag dropped, and Anti-Macassar was also left savers lengths in the rear of the other four, who got off together, Viola making the pace as hot as possible, followed by Cor delis, Bunch, and Eugenie. Approaching the turn into the straight Anti-Macassat drew up, and at the distance, Bunch and Eugenie being belten, the favourite took third place, but neither ho nor Cordelia could reach Viola, who won by three parts of a length. Half a length separated the second and third ; the other two were not persevered with, and Fordhatu finding it useless to attempt to catch the leaders, wisely pulled up his horse, who trotted is with the crewd. The Town Stakes of 25 si,vs, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, for all ages; selling and other allowances. About three-quarters of a mile. Mr Goodwin's Bossy, 2 yrs (£4O), sst 71b ..(Goodwin) 1 Mr W. W. Baker's Dagon, 2 yrs (.£10), .Est Zi-A) - - - (H. lar Mr F. G. Hobson's Brother S am , 4 yrs (£4O), Bst C3lbk) 2 (H. Grimshaw) 3 Capt. Goff's Lancashire Witch, 2 yrs (E4O), sst 71b (A, Hayhoe) 4 Betting-5 to 2on Beasy, who, after considerable delay, occasioned by Lancashire Witch, waited upon Dagon to the half distance, when she came away and won by two lengths. A neck separated the second and third. The winner was bought in tot 190 guineas. The Bedfordshire Stakes of 70 sovs, added to a Handi cap of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, for three-yr-olds and upwards; winners extra. About two miles. Mr Stephen's Turn cf Luck, by West Australian—El Dorado, 5 yrs, Bst lib Mr Drewitt's Sheridan 3 yrs, Gst 9.b (Loatcs) 2 Mr Angell's Dunkeld, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Perry) 3 Mr Low's Gibraltar, aged, Sat 121 b Betting-11 to 10 on Sheridan, 100 to 30 agst Turn of Luck, 9 to 2 agst Gibraltar, 10 to 1 asst Dunkeld. The latter made play at a good pace, with Sheridan at his girths, four or five lengths in front of Gibraltar, close be hind whom came Turn of Luck. No change occurred in their relative positions until within three quarters of a mile of the finish, where Turn of Luck passed Gibraltar, and after Dunkeld had been deprived of the lead by Sheridan, she took her place alongside the latter, waited upon him to the distance, where she took up the running and won by a neck. Dunkeld a bad third. Gibraltar was pulled up before reaching the post. The Consolation Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added, for three-yr-olds, colts Set 101 b, fitlies Sat 71b ; the winner to be sold for £l5O, if demanded, &C. About one mile. Mr Alexander's Mirage, Bst 71b (Perry) 1 Mr Cliff's Sea Boy, Bst 101 b (7l Taylor) 2 Mr Hodgman's liawkshaw, Bst 10lb (Fordham) 3 Mr Naylor's The Tailor, Set 1011) (Challoner) 4 Bel ting-5 to 4 on Hawkshaw, 4 to each aget Mirage and Sea Boy, 10 to 1 agst The Tailor. Sea Boy made play with a clear lead for three quarters of a mile, when his three opponents closed up. Entering the straight The Tailor dropped back, and at the distance Hawkshaw was beaten. Sea Boy and Mirage made a fine race home, and the latter getting up opposite the Stand won a splendid finish by a neck. Three lengths separated the second and third ; The Tailor beaten off. LATEST BETTING, CESAREWITCH. fo 1 agst Gratitude (taken) Bto 1 agst Mail Train (taken) Sto 1 I.,gst Thalestris (taken) 10 to 1 agst Calista colt (taken) 25 to 1 agst Beatrix (taken) 33 to 1 agst Dr Syntax (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lady Frances (taken) THE SUN,_I4ONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, OCTOI3EIt 5, 1864. Paris Autumn Meeting. Delightful weather favoured the second day at Long champs. Of the five events on the card three brought out large fields, while the running for the Groat Criterium—the principal two-year-old race of the year—and the Omnium or French Cesarewitch, rendered the day's business excep tionally interesting. The attendance was large and fashion able, the Imperial stand being occupied by the Emperor, Prince Humbert, and the Princess of Lenchtenberg, with their suites. The racing commenced with a Selling Stakes, which brought ten starters to the post; Mlle, Duchesnois and A utinous enjoyed about equal favour, each finding suppor ters at sto 2. The selection of the two as favourites proved correct by their coming in first and second. The winner to be claimed' for 3,000 f, was taken by M. Voisin for 6,275 f. The two-yr.o ld race came next, and produced fourteen of the 22 coloured; flake de Morny's Lelio, by West Australian and LauLcelot taro, was made a warm favourite at 2 to 1 on the strength his running at Baden, where he came in second to his etable companion Clermont; it was then thought he migh t have easily taken first place had not his party preferred wi:lning with the other. As many as half a dozen false starts wore made before the lot could be got fairly off, the cause beikg the anxiety of Le Bearnais' jockey to get away in advance o , ` the rest. When the lot did get fairly under way, that horse was in front•by a good half a dozen lengths, and tried, as ha d been apparently his inten tion, tho cutting down system. His object was attained, for after keeping the lead to the stands he was only over taken by Lelio, whom, however, he tuanaged to shake off at the post, and wort by a short neck; th9go two at the finish were alone in the race, the pace made by Le Beartutis hav ing made the running too hot fcr the rest, who came in widely scattered over the course, at a respectable distance in the rear. Edwards, who rode the winner, on returning to scale, got a severe reprimand for causing the false starts, and was menaced with suspension should he repeat the offence. Le Bearnais had just arrived from England, hav ing run second at Newmarket on Thursday in the Trien nial Produce Stakes. The Prix Imperial followed, and proved a match between Nobility and Filibustier ; the former was favourite, two to one, and ran first throughout, winning in a canter. The Omnium was the next event on the card, thirteen of the sixty-eight originally engaged presenting themselves at the post. Eva, Ileurlys, and Banniere engrossed almost the whole of the betting—two, four, and five being laid against them respectively. The race was looked upon almost as a certainty for Eva, who was considered to be too lightly handicapped at 921 b, as she had beaten Gentilhomme as a two-year-old. The favourite was, however, nowhere throughout the race, and came in last but one, the winner being the Duke de Moray's Perle, against whom almost any odds under 4) to 1 might have been obtained. Perle had this year won the Express at Fontainebleau and the Prix de la Societe at Blois, but without beating any thing of value—she had, however, recently met with an accident, and was supposed to bo a doubtful starter, The business terminated with a three year-old race—the Prix Principal—which was wen by the Duke de Morny's Bayard, who was backed at evens against a field of three, one of the starters being M. Lunel's Affidavit, who ran second in the French Derby, and, it was thought, might have beaten Bois-Roussel had he been more judiciously,ridden. This was the third event carried off by the Duke de Moray during the day. It was mentioned on the course that Enoch, the steeple chase jockey, who had a bad fall at the Brussels races a few days back, had died in the hospital of that city. The following are details of the day's proceedings The Prix Extraordinaire of 2,000 f, for horses three years old and upwards. Entry, 50f. Weight for age; the winner liable to be claimed for 5,0001; if for 3,000 f, al lowed 71bs; for 1,500 f, 151bs. Distance about 2,400 metres (mile and a half). 10 subs. Duko do Moray's Mdllo. Duchesnois, 3 yrs, 1031bs, (A. Watkins) 1 Major Fridolin's Antinous, 3 yrs, 1061bs (C. Pratt) 2 M. Schickler's Leuctres, 3 yrs, 1031bs (Mortimer) 3 The following also ran—Sportsman, Nanterre, Seco vela, Courlis, I)ernisr-B,ron, Rondinolla, and Mai. Betting-5 to 2 each agst Mlle. Duchesnois and Anti- nous ; 5 to 1 agst Leuctres ; 10 to 1 Dernier-Baron. Dernicr-Baron ran in front for the greater part of the distance, and was then beaten and went to the rear ; the running was then taken up by Antinous and Leuctres, but at the stands Mlle. Duchesnois came out, passed the two leading horses, and won easily by a length. The Grand Critorium of 4,000 f. for two-year-olds. Entry, 200 f. ; the second to double his entry. Weight—colts, 1031bs ; ',fillies, 1061bs. Distance about 1,6 1 .;0 metres. Twenty-four subs. Count de Lagrange's c Le Bearnais (Edwards) 1 Duke de Morny's c Lelio (A.. Watkins) 2 Count do Lagrange's Schaffhouso The following also ran :—Solitaire, Schooner, Themis, Vatour, Tolson d'Or, Mignon, Tourmalet, Gironette, Anec dote, Tancrede, Joli Cann Betting-2 to 1 agst Lelio ;4to I agst Le Bearnais; 5 to 1 agst Anecdote ; 6 to 1 agst Tancrede; 8 to 1 agst So litaire. After several false starts Le Bearnais got off with a good lead with Schaffhouse, Tancrede, and Joli Ccour running in front of the rest, half a dov.n lengths behind Bearnais. After turning to the straight Lelio, who had been working up:from the rear where he was at starting, went forward, and on nearing home had got alongside of Le Bearnaie, the latter, however, shook off Duke de Morny's horse at the post and won by a neck, Schaffouso was a bad third, and Solitaire fourth. The Prix Imperial, of 5,000 f, for horses 4-yrs old and up wards. Entry 300 f. ; ILL The second to receive half the entries. Distance about 4,800 metres. Eight subs, Mr J. Carter's Nobility, 4-yrs, 1251bs (W. Carter) 1 Count de Lagrange's Filibustier, 1201bs (C. Pratt) 2 Betting-2 to lon Nobility. Nobility made the running from first to last, winning by two lengths. The Ornnium Handicap of 6,000 fr for horses throe years old and upwards. Entry, 300 fr ; 200 fr forfeit, or 100 fr only if declared. The second to receive I,ooolr. Distance 2,400 metres. Sixty-eight subs. Duke do Morny's Perle, 3 yrs, 981bs ...... (A Watkins) 1 M. Teiseire's Heurlys, 5 yrs, 1151bs (Chifney) 2 Major Fridolin a Comma• Ca, 3 years, 101Ibs.. (C. Pratt) 3 The following also started : —Grande Mademoiselle, Arc turus, Banniere, Fantasia, Constellation, Eva, Nocturne, Baccarat, Vaillance, and Bun-Soir. Betting-2 to 1 agst Eva, 4to 1 agst lieurlys, sto : agst Banniore, 8 to 1 agst Comme-Ca, 12 to 1 agst Constel lation, 15 to 1 agst Grande Mademoiselle, and 35 to 1 age Perle. Boin-Seir made the running to the cascade, when Elcurlye went to the front, Bon-Soir being also passed by Nocturne and M. t chickler's two. After turning tho last corner Perle, Comore Ca, and Baccarat went forward, and lay close in the rear of Heurlys. At the stands Perle parted company with the other two, challenged Euerlys, and, getting in front within a couple of lengths cf home, beat M. Teisseire's horse by a neck, Comore Ca a bad third, and Baccarat fourth. The Prix Principal, of 3,000 F, third cines for horses which havo nevtr won a first or second class prize. Entry, 200 f h f; the second to receive half the entries. Distance 2,400 moires. Six subs. Duke de Moray's Bayard, 1121bs M. Lupin's Bartavelle, 109 lbs .... M. Luners Affidav t, 112Ibs ........ Baron de Rothsehild'o Baronol.o, 1121bs ....(Williains) 0 Betting—Even agst Bayard, 2 to 1 agst Affidavit, 3 to agHt Bartaveile. Affidavit ran in front to the plantation, when ho was passed by Bayard and Bartavelle, who fhished the race be tween them, Bayard winning by a goo d l eng th, Affidavit was a bad third. The Attempted Murder at Masbro% At the Rotherham Court House, on Monday (before Messrs Foljambe, Yates, and Tillotson), Joseph Thompson was charge i v ith attempting to murder Elizabeth Itoe buck in her own house, in Masbro', by striking her with a poker, on the 19th of September last. The poor woman, who still appeared to be very weak, and spoke in a rather feeble way, was accommodated with a seat during the pro ceedings. Thompson, on being brought into court, imme diately fainted away and had to be carried out again. Mrs Roebuck appeared with her head tied up with a bandage. Thompson, on being brought into court a second time, was allowed a seat in the dock, Mr Gillett said the doctor believed that the fits Thompson had were assumed. Mr Edwards appeared for the prosecution. He briefly opened the case, and then called Mrs Roebuck, who said—l am a widow, and live at Mas bro', and have known the prisoner since about Christmas last, but more intimately since March. He was in the habit of coming to my house, and has made proposals of marriage to me. I discharged the prisoner from coming to the house on the Tuesday previous to the 15th September, on the evening of which day I was going out with some clothes. when I met him nearly opposite my house. My little girl was with me, and he said " oh, mother," and I said, " Now, Joe, you are going to reckon," and he said " Yes," I went on, and he called to me and said, " Am I not to be allowed to call at your house," and I said, " No, I shall not allow you to call any more." He said ho should, and I told him he should not, for I should fasten the door. When I got home there was a person in my house mangling, and then another came in. While they were there the prisoner came, at about 9 o'clock, and remained in my house while Mrs Barker and Mrs Lee had done mangling, Before Mrs Barker went out I mid to the prisoner, " Come Joe, it is time for you to go home," but he did not go. As soon as they had gone, I told him again to go. He said nothing. I sat down to my supper. He said " Are you going to get your supper ?" I said " Yes, I am going to finish it." He pulled out a small pork pie and said " Get some of that." I said I should not, and he looked at i my little girl and said " Perhaps she'll have some." She said "No, thank you." He cut it into three pieces himself, and I told him to get some himself. Ho said, "Nay, I'm same as you; I've had my supper," Then ho pulled a small bottle of brandy out of his pocket. Talking about the pie he made this remark, " It would probably be the last pie we should eat together." I said, "very likely so, because I'm decided." Then he wanted me to have the brandy, and I said " No, I should not," He said, " You aro very wel come," and I said " I dare say I am, but I shall not have it." I then got up and said to re l y little girl she had not given the cats their supper. She said she had, but had not warmed it. I reached some milk to warm for the cats, and whilst it was warming he took the poker in his left hand, and said that his keel itched, and be knocked the back of his boot-heel with the poker. I laughed at him, and said "It was one way to scratch where it itched." 1 then gave the little girl the milk to take into the kitchen, which she did, and soon as she had gone he jumped up and struck me over the head with the poker. I screamed " Murder" and called for my neighbour, Thomas Collinson. I hold my hands up to him and begged him to spare my life. I got hold of the poker, but he pulled it out of my hand, and struck me with it on the right side of my head. I felt as it I was going to fall, He then turned away from me towards the door, and I gave a scream. I thought he was going to fasten the door, and I got on my feet again. Ho then turned round with the poker in his right hand, and I caught a chair in mine and held it up. After this ho struck me many times, but my arm and the chair caught more than my head. My boy Edward came running down stairs just as the prisoner was going out the door, and my boy struck at him with the brash, but did not hit him, The prisoner struck:me again several times, and I begged him to spare my life. He never spoke all the time he was doing it. After he had gone se veral neighbours came in—Collinson among the rest, and I sent him for Mr Walker, who came. After he had dressed my wounds I went to bed, and was in bed for 10 days. I have not been able to do anything since. I saw Mr Ker shaw the same nigh t,before I went to bed. I saw the poker in Kershaw's hand. It is now produced. The poker was not near so much bent as i t now is b e f ore Th om p son s t ruc k me with it. The chair produced is mine, and was not broken before the night of the assault. By Mr Whitfield--I did not eat any pie with him, The first blew was on the right side of the NEIL I was standing at the time. The blow did not kn- el( nte down. The second blow was on the same side of the head. Be struck many blows at me, and many of the blows I warded off with my arm. I was never all my length down on the ground. I was standing upon my feet when I was protecting myself with the chair. Many of the blows fell upon the chair. I put down the chair when he left the house. J was standing upright when the prisoner left the house. Fanny and Edward Roebuck, son and daughter of the prosecutrix, gave in some measure confirmatory evidence. William Allott, Hasbro', said—On the night of the 19th Sept. I was going past Mrs Roebuck's house about half-past ten o'clock when I heard screams of murder. Mr Collinson told Henry Rhodes and me to go across, which we did. Just.as we got to the door Thompson came out. I said, " What's your game now ?" and he said, " Oh, nothing ; nothing." I caught him by the coat and ho got away from me. I followed him to the Queen Hotel, wh&re h 2 struck me, and I struck him again. We got hold of him there and were bringing him towards the police-office, when we met a policeman, and gave him into custody. He asked us to take him back to Mrs Roebuck's house. As we were going back 1 asked him what he had done it for, and he said, " Oh, nothing; I am pleased I have done it." I did not know at that time what he had done. He was not allowed to go into the house. I went in to Mrs Roebuck's. She was bleeding awfully from the head. I went to the pri soner and told him she was not fit for him to look at. He made no reply. I sent Thomas Collinson for Mr Walker, and gave the prisoner into custody. By Mr. Whitfield—Thompson wanted to go to see how she was. He was very anxious to see how she was. Henry Rhodes gave similar evidence, and added—He gave us ls. each to take him back to see Mrs. Roebuck. Thompson asked Mr. Allott if he thought she would get better, and one of the neighbours replied, "No, she did not think she would." He then said, lam a happy man; you may now take me: to the Town Hall. We afterwards gave him up to the police. George Row gave corroborative evidence. Sergeant Kershaw proved the apprehension of the pri. soner. Mr B. Walker, who was called to see Mrs Roebuck, said —I examined her head and found three contused lacerated wounds, and the skull fractured in ono place. She was also very much bruised about the left fore arm and hand. The wound greatest in length was one about three and a half inches long. The next in size was an inch and a half in length; the smallest wound was about an inch and a quar ter long. The fracture on the skull was on the upper and back part of the head. The head was very much battered in several places. I dressed her wounds, and ordered her to bed. She was in bed nine or ten days, Fatal results might have ensued. Her life was in danger about six days. She has not yet fully recovered. The poker that has been produced would have caused such wounds if used with great force. This concluded the evidence for the prosecution. Mr Whitfield addressed the bench on behalf of the pri soner, contending that this was not a case of assault with intent to murder. Thompson, who reserved his defence, was then com mitted to take his trial on a charge of cutting and wounding, Attempted Murder at Newcastle under Lytle, A sergeant of the 3rd Staffordshire Militia, named Richd. Fielder, made a deliberate attempt to murder his wife on Sunday. It appears that up to the time of the occurrence Fielder was a staff sergeant of the militia, and resided with his wife at the barracks. There had been some unpleasant ness between him and his wife for some time past, and on Saturday he received orders from his adjutant to remove from the barracks in consequence of the misconduct of his wife. He became greatly excited and warmly upbraided her. She tore open his waistcoat and took some money out of the po.kets. He demanded it back again, but she refused to give it him, and ran into a neighbour's house. He followed her, when she took up a chair to strike him. He came out, and returned in a few minutes with a loaded rifle. His wife was then sitting on a sofa. When he reached the door he deliberately presented the rifle and fired, The ball struck her right elbow, and passing downwards ploughed a furrow in the fleshy part, finally entering the wall beyond, drilling a hole six inches deep. Fielder was at once secured, and he was on Monday brought before the magistrates. Mrs Fielder was the first witness examined. She, however, endeavoured to screen her husband, stating that he did not shoot at her ; he only shot at the wall, intending to frighten her. When closely questioned, she said that the rifle was at an elevationwhich would have sent the bullet into her body had she not suddenly thrown herself back. She said her husband appeared to be out of hie mind. Since the races he had been drinking heavily; so had she. They had in consequence of that been ordered to leave the barracks by the adjutant. While in India her husband had been twice in the hospital, suffering from delirium tremens, and when he was in drink he was like a man out of his mind. When in that state he once threatened to destroy himself, and on one occasion she had taken a rifle from him to prevent his doing so. Sergeant Major Thomas Walker stated that, on questioning the prisoner, he at first denied having fired the rifle; but on asking him how Le accounted for the bole in the wall he said " I did it; I shot her, and lam sorry that I have not killed her." A packet of ammunition which had been given to prisoner was found to have been opened, and one cartridge taken out. When arrested the prisoner said "It was a deliberate act. She has disgraced me. What shall Ido We are ordered out of the barracks. I must have been mad when I loaded my rifle, for I don't know how I did it." Further evidence having been given, the prisoner was then committed for trial at the assizes. Alleged Death from a Fight. On Monday the coroner, Mr J. B, Grindon, held an in quest at the Infirmary, Birmingham, touching the death of Charles Burdon, who had died in that institution, it was supposed, from injuries caused in a fight with another man, named Geo. Carpnter. Mr E. C. Board, house surge n at the infirmary, said the deceased was brought into the house on Tuesday last. He saw him sborly afterwards, and observed symptoms like those arising from an affection of the bladder. Ha was at first treated for that disease, but in consequence of hearing that he had met with an accident witness made an alteration in the mode of treatment. He died on Friday afternoon, and on Saturday a post-mortem examination was made. Witness ascertained rupture of the bladder to have been the cause of death. That rupture must have been the resul of external violence. It was not an extensive rupture—it was about an inch long. Surgical treatment could not have caved life in a case of that sort. There was no other cause of death apparent. Tho 3. Lewis, landlord of the Bristol and North Somerset Rrilway Inn, St. Philip's Marsh, stated that he knew Chas. Burdon. He was a combmaker, about 39 years of age, and a married man with five children. On Monday last deceased was at witness's house. Between six and seven in the evening witness was engaged in the front par lour, when he heard a commotion in the taproom. Ho went there and saw Carpenter and Burdon. They were quarrel ling ab int the cards. He was very angry at the sight of the cards, and he seized them immediately and sent for a po liceman. In the meantime he saw several blows with fists pass between the two men. They closed together, and fell heavily on one another on the floor. They fell three times. The last time Burdon was undermost, and his head strrck a leg of the table. His head bled, but not a great deal. Wit ness did not hear him complain of having received any in ternal injury. Witness left the room, and Burden was takex home i❑ a cart by his brother-in-law. By a Juror —They were not over remarkably gone with drink, but they had been drinking together, and appeared to be perfectly sensible. Carpenter brought the cards into his house without his knowledge and against his rules, He said he had fetched them at Burdon's desire. Henry Cock, cooper Newtown, said he had a slight know ledge of the deceased. He was in his company on that day week at the Bristol and North Somerset Railway Inn. He was there at a quarter past six, and saw Carpenter and Burdon playing at cards there. Carpenter was a coachman out of employ. A dispute took place between them. They had arranged that the first man who played a false card should forfeit a chalk. It appeared Carpenter played a false card, and the deceased took a chalk. Then deceased played a false card, and Carpenter wanted to take a chalk, but the deceased would not allow him to do so, and then a dispute occurred. They began to fight, and when they had had one round he stopped them, and one of them hit him on the nose for so doing. They then sat down quietly for a time, but again fought, and Mr Lewis came into the room. They fell three times, and witness again separated them. It appeared to him that neither of them had sus tained any serious injury ; but on one occasion Burdon fell very awkward—all of a heap on his face. He did not com plain of being hurt. Both men were tipsy. Immediately after the fight witness found Burdon lying down moaning in the yard. George Carpenter, after being cautioned by the coroner, said the evidence which had been given contained nothing but the truth. He believed, however, that the deceased since he had been in the infirmary had given his opinion that he (Carpenter) had not caused the injury. The deceased's wife was called, and she stated that what her husband said at the infirmary was that ho felt hurt before he was put in the cart, but the jolting of the cart had not done him any good. The Coroner 'summed up, leaving to the jury the ques tions —Was the rupture the result of violence? and, if so, was that violence intentional or accidental ? The jury returned a vordiet that the deceased died from rupture of the bladder. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment.—All varie ties of ulcerations, bad legs, sores, wounds, and eruption s , can be cured by the diligent u se of this cooling, soothing, and healing unguent. The old and often-failing fashion of strapping the edges of ulcers together with plasters has entirely given way before the more reasonable treatment by Holloway's ointment, which builds up from the bottom of the wound with sound and healthy granulations; these gradually grow till they reach the level of the surface, then contract, harden, and immediately become covered with a new and wholesale skin. The proper application of this ointment diminishes the inflammation, causes the un healthy discharge first to grow thick then to cease. The pills should be tat= so as to act ia twisoa With the oint ment. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNAL a - TIMES.—Among the pains of wealth and power not the least is that they cannot do what they want mostly. They can do a great deal in the way of caprice, or to satisfy the exigent for a season, but if they are combined with high and useful aims they are doomed to disappointment. The great wealth and power of this country are manifest in our cities, our palaces, our fleets, our prisons, our railways, and innumerable splendid institutions. But there is a crook in the lot of even Imperial grandeur and benevolence. They cannot effectually reform the dwellings of the poor. We believe that the gene rous instinct which lately prompted a distinguished merchant to spend a fortune for this purpose alone, following the example of a lady who has left many a like mark on this metropolis, is very widely dif fused, Were there no special difficulties in the way, moat gentlemen with adequate means would make .great sacrifices to see their peasantry or their work people well housed. But something stops the way and brings the most earnest endeavours to a dead lock, till perhaps the resources are otherwise spent or the impulse itself worn out. Even in its vast aggregate it is a small thing compared with the wealth of this empire. The calculation is not diffi cult. Let us confine ourselves to the agricultural classes. It is they that have the most claim to public sympathy, because theirs is really the worst and the most helpless case. In any town, if a man chooses to pay a shilling a week more or to walk half a mile further, he can change one room for two, a lodging for a house of his own, or, a wretched hovel for a commodious and healthy cottage. Bat is not so in the country. Besides the low rate of wages, there are generally other causes in the rural districts that put it almost out of the power of the labourer to choose his own abode. It often happens that there is not a single cottage in the whole parish fit for a large family. Even where there are several they ate not obtainable. They must be waited for, and much interest must be made for them. Meanwhile the elements wait not. Disease comes and goes as it lists. The course of nature cannot be retarded for human convenience, though it be to crown the most virtuous hopes and reward the most meritorious exertions. Before the healthier home has been ob tained The growing progeny has been stifled in its contracted nest, and it is only a sad and sorrowing remnant that reaches the wished-for haven. Such is the ordinary case of our agricultural poor. They may easily be well fed and well clothed, but not so easily well housed. This is what England, with all its wealth and power, cannot remedy. Yet, as we said, even the aggregatecost is a trifle in the national scale. If we suppose there to be a million agricul tural labourers in this island, three-fourths of them to be ill housed, and an average expenditure of .£lOO to be sufficient to build new cottages or renovate and enlarge old ones, then a total of 75 millions would complete the desired reform—a little more than our annual income, and much less than the ccst of the Russian war. So we are obliged to a " Herts Vicar" for recalling us to a topic which, old though it be, is unfortunately still new. The case he describes is one of sad frequency. A village prospers. The people find work for all ages, for women and girls as well as for men and boys. There is an unusual demand for small services. Men are calling to ask for lodging for a few weeks or a year. There are buildings, roads, railways, planting, or inc!osing within the radius of a few miles. There is straw plaiting, lace making, or some other small industrylon the increase, and still paying well. The first impulse in the struggle for existence is the struggle • for wages—wages with excessive toil, wages with hardships, wages with peril, wages with diminished life, wages with inevitable sickness, wages at the sacrifice of family duties and affections —but anyhow for wages. So in wretched tene ments that refuse to expand, and cannot be ex changed for better, families increase, and will not seek their fortunes elsewhere. Perhaps their work itself, by its monotony and its very toil, weakens the energy and takes away enterprise. Be that as it may, there is one thing that even the strong and healthy labourer seldom gives a thought to. He thinks of his meals, his fireside, his clothes, and a few other wants, but little indeed of his sleep. He goes to his bed, as to his nightly grave, for oblivion, and little heeds whether the vapours of his chamber be even as those of the grave, and the bed itself be too apt a type of the final rest. He does not always wake as well rested as he might ; nay, he often finds, he knows not how, that he is more tired in the morning than he was over night, and is not quite himself till set up by open air and a meal. If he thinks little of himself, as little does he think of his wife and children—what air they breathed in the night, or how they felt in the morning, or how it told on their weaker frames, with less to restore them in the daytime. He does not ask how it is that with food enough, and no visible foe to health, yet his children do not thrive as they ought. If he chance to return to the little chamber in which he and nine or ten other pairs of lungs have been breathing the same air with hardly a chance of change for as many hours he is almost knocked down by the odour, as "A Herts Vicar" truly says, and as every diligent parish priest knows well by experi • ence. But he thinks no more about it ; air is air to him, and an ill odour is only a nuisance, per ceptible to the waking, but harmless to those who perceive it not. So he and his family go on spending nine hours out of the twenty-four in an atmosphere forbidden to our unions and gaols. The poison, nevertheless, works its way as surely as that of a reptile or a mad dog. The system is undermined. The lungs lose their energy of action. Every muscle and every fibre loses its self-recruiting power. An epidemic comes and finds prepared victims. They fall before it easily. Even if they recover from the specific disease they die of the weakness. In the collapse from one malady they sink into another, and perish before a foe who attacks them with a more terrible reserve in his rear. Just surviving measles they are destroyed by fever. What better account can be given of the case described by our correspondent, when the death -rate of a large agri cultural parish in, as it appears, too prosperous circumstances, was suddenly raised four-fold P It may possibly turn out that the medical treatment of measles and fevers has much to answer for, and that with proper care convelescence need not be so fatal in operation. Bat in these cases, unhappily very general, we see the prima facie proof of a want of stamina or reserve of force in the system. When, too, a whole family is attacked by an epidemic, or is slowly recovering, nature itself must fight with terrible odds in an overcrowded cottage, where the safest of all medicines, fresh air, is denied. It is not to be denied that there is a mystery in epidemics that no theory can meet, and that only forbids the supposition of any one preponderating cause; but all experience sets pure air and epidemics in the strongest possible antagonism. As things now are in this country at a time when we are beginning to feel the value of souls, and of bodies too, that agri cultural population which is the rough basis of our national strength has to struggle with conditions perfectly removable but most injurious to health, and. in a certain large proportion, actually fatal to life, Many thousands of valuable lives are' annus ally lost by a merely social difficulty, for it is only social. It rests with the owners of land and the employers of labour to say where the blame rests; but the evil exists, and in the lette r b e f ore us we see too plainly that the remedies are very slow in reach• ing it, if indeed it is not getting far ahead of them. POST.—The Wreck Chart and Register of Wrecks for the year 1863, published in the Journal of the National Life-boat Institution for the present month tell a sad tale of suffering and loss of life, relieved by an account of the lives saved by means of the life-boats stationed on our coasts. The life-boat is naturally and peculiarly an English institution, be cause our large maritime commerce suggested its necessity, and our skill in naval architecture, also the consequence of our insular position enabled us to construct these light but buoyant vessels in a way capable of weathering the most violent storms. In illustration of this we may adduce the fact that during the past year 414,000 vessels, using round numbers, entered into or cleared our ports on our coasts ; an amount of shipping which represents about 62,000,000 tons burthen, and a money value of more than £400,000,000; while the wrecks and casualties on our shores during' the same period were upwards of 2,000. Of these more than half were caused by stress of weather, and the remainder by defects in the ships themselves, or through the negligence, unskilfulness, or mismanagement of their crews, together with various unknown causes not specified. But, whatever the cause, the effect is the same for the crew, and then it is that the uti lity and value of the lifeboat are experienced. In the course of last year about 5,100 lives were saved, principally by means of the lifeboats stationed on our coasts, of which there are now as many as 182 in fell service throughout these isles. There are 21 of these on the coasts of Scotland, and 22 on those of Ireland. Besides the lifeboats stationed at the most appropri ate points on our shores, there are 239 mortar and rocket s t a ti ons i n the United Kingdom; Scotland has 26, and Ireland 43. Within the past eight years these various establishments have been the eans of saving more than 25,000 human lives, upwards of a fifth of which were rescued from drowning during the past year. The lifeboat stations on the shorts of England are 139 in num. ber, and the mortar and rocket stations 170. O i looking over the Wreck Chart of the British Isles it is terrible to contemplate the innumerable black dots which mar k th e nu mbers and loc a liti es of mari time casualties and wrecks. Side by side with th ese are the thin red lines which indicate the lifeboat stations, and these assure as that help is at hand. Still the number of lives lost is terrible to contem plate. From 1854 to 1863 nearly 7,800 lives were the sacrificed. And of late yearn these casualties have been much on the increase. This is prO due to the increase of our maritime trade and rapidly augmenting numbers of the vessels whi r l enter and leave o ur p or t s . But of cou rse there are excepti ona l y ears of storms. The wrecks and casualties in the year 1860 were 1,51 f, in 1861 th e y were 1,494 ; i n 1862 th e y were I, B T a and in 1863 th e y were 2,ool— ma ki ng a grand t° _, of 8,117 withi n th e p er i o d o f f our year s. The Ow_ paratively moderate increase of the former year; suddenly presented an excess of nearly 200 wre°,', and casualties i n 1863 over 1862 , an d o f co nsideraDiS more than 300 in 1862 over 1861. This was owing to the severe gal es an d storms w hi c h o ccurred 111 , the last three m on th s o f t h e year 1863, and January, October, an d D ecem b er , 1862. And keri we come upon a very important point in conside rinP these matters. We allude to the weather forece: derived from the readings of the barometer. I ' l National Life-boat Institution has a hundred of OP, instruments at its various stations on the coast) 813 ,.„ the Board of Trade has a like number at other eon venient points on our shores. With the assistance of a diagram or chart for showing the variations o 1 the barometer, seafaring men can tell what the weather will be with a degree of approxinaat! v certainly sufficient for practical purposes. 1t is 111: deed chiefly to the l a ck o f suc h a precau tion, or th e disregard of the admoni t i ons o f th e quicksilver, that so many casualti es are d ue . B u t i t i s gra tifying t O , know that our fishermen and sailors are becoming more and more e d uca t e d every d ay i n this Pt l essential branch of maritime knowledge. The fate gales of the autumn o f 1863 were distinctly and emphatically indicated by the barometer. The mendous storm of the 30th October was foretold by the perturbations of the quicksilver as long Pr ey e viously as the 27th, and it con ti nue d f a lli n g uP,L it the time when the full st ress o f th e ga l e was I along our coasts. Th e v i o l ence o f t h e stor m map be judged from the fact that the pressure of Win' or atmosphere in motion, was about 301 b to th e square foot. The storms of the following months were predicted by e qua lly unmistakable symptoms But though, as we have seen, there has been a steady increase in the annual number of wrecks and casualties, there has also been a sin:t ill ' taneous falling off in the number of lives sacrificed. For instance, the number of live ° lost in 1863 is less than the annual averag e of the last twelve years by 161. This no doubt is in great part owing to the exertions of the life' boat crews stationed on our shores. In the beginning of December last, during one terrible night of tern‘ pest, 120 human souls were rescued by the lifeboat from a couple of ships wrecked on the Girdler Sand; and the Shingles. One of these vessels was full o ,', emigrants. The crew of th e lif e b oat were a t sv o l' all night. drenched with the waves that washed over their small and fragile craft at every plunge, a nd numbed and frozen by the icy wind, Bat they flagged in their labour till they had brought the t a last freight of human bei ngs — men , women , an children—safe on shore. During that December storm about 250 human beings were saved by t he lifeboats; nor should we forget to mention the bene; volent and humane co-op era ti on o f t h e emp l o yes 0' the Board of Trade, the coastguard, and the fishe r : men and boatmen round our s h ores , who are eve' foremost in the danger wh e n th ere is human life to be saved. According to the statement before us, t ° , the National Lifeboat A ssoc i a ti on i s d ue t h e credit of having cont r ib u t e d t o save the li ves of 14,000 i persons. This instituti o n al one c l a i ms to h ave sace c :, more than 400 li ves an d 17 vessels w i th i n the Pei year, and to h ave grante d rewards to the crews of shore boats and oth ers i n respect of the rescue o' , 300 lives more. But numerous as our lifeboats may be thought, from the figures stated above, they sr e not so numerous as they ought to be. One of thes e small vessels may have to go to a wreck and return i several times before it ha s b roug h t o ff the crew passengers. If we take the case of an emigrant sbilh or a ship principally used for the conveyance of pas', senger, or a troop ship, w e s h a ll eas il y un d ers tand how the greater number of persons on board mig k b : be sacrificed through th e vesse l go i ng to p i eces o n rocks before the lifeboat sent to her rescue had been able to convey her instalments of human life frail the wreck to the shore. Let us hope that the tim e is coming when, through a proper attention to the forecasts of the " Weather office," the habits in ou r sailors of consulting the barometer, and the service; of the lifeboat, the number of wrecks, and especially the great sacrifice of human life which they involves will have become greatly diminished. COUNTRY MARKETS. .r___.ii-- LE E D S-TUESDAY. There was a moderate show of grain to-day at ar market. The demand for wheat is still limited, and al though prices are not quotably lower, the trade rules flat' Barley, oats, and beans easier to purchase. Averages—Oct. 3—Wheat 395 Bid per qr. —Oats . 23s 7d -- - —Beans 40s 6d -- - —Peas ..36s 04 ' —.— —Barley 33s ON --' —Rye 28s 61 -- LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. There was a good attendance of both town and country dealers at market to-day,and the business done was of a more active character, and En g li s h w h ea t so ld at a b out 2d per cental advance on the prices of last market day. Barllr beans, and peas at fully Friday's prices. Indian corn st l " active at 6 ) to 9d advance. Oats and oatmeal may og quoted at 6d per load decline. Flour in better request, an good fresh qualities the turn dearer. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. A moderate attendance of farmers and factors to-daY, l)ll the trade on the whole ruled dull. Wheat mainta ned Pr!: vious rates. The trade in barley was quiet, and a t law rates. Flour, oats, and other articles at late prices. A 11 1 Red wheat, p er l oa d o f 3 i mper i a l b us h els...lss Od to 16s g,,,. White ...17s Od to 1 8 s ':: New red • ' 15s Od to 16s 0 1 New white ~ ~ -..16s 6d to 17$ Ou n A Beans if 11 ...15s 6d to 16s " , Oa 11 77 Peas, per qr .. 4os Od to 44s v- Grinding ba r l e y, p er qr 2Bs Od to 32s Od Malting ditto, ~ Od Oats 1, 2 3 2 2 B s I d t t o o 2 3 5 6 : Od Flour,' is 5d to is 10d per 14 lb. BRISTOL—TuRs)Ay. A fair attendance to day, with a more active busicei! doing' jn wheat, and prices slightly lower. Barley, bee " peas, and oats extremely dull. Maize rather firmer. MELTON MOWBRAY-TUESDAY. A fair show of wheat, amongst which were some fine quo lities ; the trade, however, was not very active. Bold was plentiful, and prices rather easier, Oats 6d cheaper' —The following were the currencies :—New white whew' 408,0 d to 44s Od ; new red, 37s Od to 41s per 36 stone; beans, 38s to 42s for old ; new sorts, 35s to 37s per 38 st•,i barley, —s to —s for malting, and 27s to 29s per qr• f°; grinding; new oats, 20s to 25 s Od p er 24 s t one; o ld ) 24 9 to 295. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Oct 19 ' via Marseilles .. Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Nov. 4 . Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Oct. 2 9 . (china, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Oct. 19 via Marseilles ... Oct. 13. Falkland Islands ............... Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Oct. 11 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Oct. 19. via Marseilles.... Oct, 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct. 6. Portugal.... Nov. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct. 6. Newfoundland .. Oct. 12. Oporto and Vigo:.. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 12. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Oct. 7. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 14. California. and Briti s h Columbia. }Oct. Births. BARRY. —On the 3d inst., at 1, Old Palace•yard, Mrs. Edward M. Barry, of a son. DANIER —On the Ist inst„ at Hazlewood, the Hon. Mrs. Seymour Dawson Darner, of a son, PETRE.—On the 3d inst., at Copttold Hall, Essex, the Lady Catherine Petre, of a son. WALKER.—On the Ist inst., at Edinburgh, the ii° ll. Mrs. Walker, of Dalry, of a daughter. Marriages. LYTTON-1 1 '11,1,mm —On the 4th inst., at Saint Peal Church, Knightsbridge, Mr. Lytton, on l y son of the H i g h' Hon, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P., to Misfi E. Villiers, daughter of the Hon. Mrs. dwa r d Villieros and niece of the Earl of Clarendon. CRAWHALL —EMMET.—On the 28th ult. at Halifax, Telo l Bo wnas Crawhall, Esq., sec on d son of Isaac Crawhellf Esq., of the Priory, Nun-Monkton York, to Ellen, elder daughter of the late J o h n Emmet, Esq., of Craven Lodge' Halifax. KITCHING—WOOLEY.-0a the 4th inst., at Hacknefi Albert George, o n ly son o f George Ditching, of Enfield, Middlesex, to Honoria Lydia, second daugh" ter of George B. Wooley, Esq., of The Eagles, Hackuel' _ . Deaths. BURGESS. —On the 2d inst,, Mr. Wm. Burgess, of Totter ham, aged 69. DAVENPORT,'. —On the 2d inst., Thomas Davenport, Egl't of Ab ercromby - square, Liverpool. HODGES —On the 2d inst ; at Bayswater, Edward Hodge' Esq., M.D., late of Bath, aged 55. MILNE. —On the Ist inst„ at Greenwich, Isaac Hornet Esq„ aged 75. RUSSELL.—On the 2d inst., at Men, Aberdeenshire, IfrBl Russell, of Aden. SALTER.—On the 2d inst., at Bayswater, Richard Franci s Salter, Esq., M,R.0.5., aged 53. WATERWORTH.—On the 3d inst„ J.• C. at Newport, A. Waterworth, M.D., aged 24. London: Printed and Prbllshed by WILLIAM ANDRICii ° ' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TLIE SUN Office Nta Strand, In the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County Ot Kiddloom—Wednesday, October 5,1564.